Mighty Close to Heaven cover

Mighty Close to Heaven is a gospel album by Carl Story and His Rambling Mountaineers, recorded in November 1962 at Starday Sound Studio in Nashville and issued by Starday in March 1963 as SLP 219. Story played guitar, with Willie Brewster and Bud Brewster on banjo and mandolin, Tommy Jackson Jr. on fiddle, Claude Boone on bass and Jack Linneman on dobro.

Story was born in Lenoir, North Carolina, in 1916, played fiddle with Bill Monroe in 1942, recorded for Mercury from 1947, and moved to Starday in 1957, where he stayed for eighteen years. The governor of Oklahoma dubbed him “The Father of Bluegrass Gospel Music.” The album has twelve songs, among them “Amazing Grace,” “Rank Stranger,” “Row Us Over the Tide” and “Campin’ in Canaan Land.” BGD credits several to Story himself or to Story with a co-writer named York, among them “Mighty Close to Heaven,” “You Don’t Love God (If You Don’t Love Your Neighbor)” and “Follow Him.”

Tracklist

  1. 1 Amazing Grace alt version 1:54
  2. 2 You Don’t Love God If You Don’t Love Your Neighbor alt version 2:13
  3. 3 Row Us Over The Tide 2:40
  4. 4 Hand In Hand 1:53
  5. 5 Rank Stranger alt version 3:06
  6. 6 Campin' In Canaan Land 2:00
  7. 7 Follow Him 2:06
  8. 8 Just One Rose Will Do 2:39
  9. 9 I'll Need The Prayers Of Those I Love 3:00
  10. 10 My Time Will Come Someday 2:12
  11. 11 Mighty Close To Heaven 3:02
  12. 12 A Picture From Life's Other Side 3:28

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